Know Your “Why”

Recently we had session 2 of our Communicating Learning via ePortfolios Team. When I wrote up this session to post for the group, it struck me that these thoughts applied to everyone especially at a time when we’re all focused on assessment, report cards and all the things that come with the process.

Learning is doing

Learning starts with the learner’s own ideas

Learning involves getting personally involved

Questions drive learning and are also outcomes of learning

Learning involves uncovering complexity

Learning can be a group process and a group outcome

Learning and thinking can be made visible

How might these ideas affect the way you approach a Fast ForWord learning environment, an assessment environment or what this means to think well (critically, creatively)? If you know your “why”, it’s easier to frame the assessment. I’m especially captivated by “questions drive learning and are also outcomes of learning”. Not the teacher’s questions but student’s questions.

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